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I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.

Erica Jong

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
Author
Feminist
Novelist
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Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily... Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself.
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Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.
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If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.
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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
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If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.
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You can't be creative and still be a good girl.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.
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I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.
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I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.
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